Extracting Mineral Components as Significant Component of the Complex Use of Geothermal Resources

Abstract

The solution to the problem of extracting mineral components (halogens, alkali element and rare metals) form geothermal waters is advisable to look at frame of a complex approach and effective uses of all the geothermal carrier resources (mechanical and heat energy, dissolve gas, mineral component and the water it self).

Economical prerequisite for such an approach is the necessity to shorten the time on covering the expanses on the development and distribution of the industrial geothermal technologies. From the technical point of view, the optimized solution of technological task of extracting mineral components is impossible beyond the problem of accompanying heat utilization. The particularity of the new mineral extraction technologies lies in its directivity to use the energy of the carrier (or electrical energy), also dissolved gas (especially methane) acquired form the geothermal source.